Pakistan Super League (PSL 2016) Team Squads – Players List

Pakistan Super League will be the official domestic T20 competition for Pakistan and the season 1 will begin on 4th February 2016 and will be played through 23 February in two cities of UAE. (Dubai and Sharjah). Five teams has been formed to with Karachi Kings, Peshawar Zalmi, Lahore Qalandars, Islamabad Vipers and Quetta Gladiators.

PSL Team Squads: All five teams has confirmed their squads after 22 December 2015 draft ceremony concluded. More than 300 players were included in the draft which were further divided into 5 categories of Platinum, Diomond, Gold, Silver and Emerging. Every team needed to pick atleast three players from top three categories, 2 mandatory picks from emerging category and teams can pick 5 from silver category.

Younis Khan, Abdul Razzaq and Saeed Ajmal were unpicked on second day of the draft. Below is the official list of team squads of all 5 franchises.

Islamabad United PSL Squad:

Pakistan test captain Misbah-ul-Haq was the top pick for Islamabad franchise who also notched up Shane Watson of Australia.

Misbah-ul-Haq (Platinum)

Andre Russell (WI, Platinum)

Shane Watson (AUS, Platinum)

Samuel Badree (WI, Diamond)

Mohammad Irfan (Diamond)

Brad Haddin (AUS, Diamond)

Sharjeel Khan (Gold)

Mohammad Sami (Gold)

Khalid Latif (Gold)

Babar Azam (Silver)

Imran Khalid (Silver)

Kamran Ghulam (Silver)

Umar Amin (Silver)

Sam Billings (ENG, Silver)

Quetta Gladiators PSL Squad:

Kevin Pieterson and Ahmad Shehzad were the top picks for Quetta gladiators which include 5 foreign players. Kevin Pieterson is likely to lead the Quetta team in PSL 2016.

Kevin Pietersen (ENG, Platinum)

Ahmed Shehzad (Platinum)

Sarfraz Ahmed (Platinum)

Anwar Ali (Diamond)

Jason Holder (WI, Diamond)

Luke Wright (ENG, Diamond)

Zulfiqar Babar (Gold)

Umar Gul (Gold)

Elton Chigumbura (ZIM, Gold)

Bilal Asif (Silver)

Asad Shafiq (Silver)

Mohammad Nawaz (Silver)

Saad Nasim (Silver)

Mohammad Nabi (AFG, Silver)

Team Owners:All five teams were auctioned on 3rd december and teams were sold for collective $93 million for the next 10 years. Karachi Kings was sold as the most expensive with Ary Media Group paying $2.6 million yearly fee for Karachi Kings. Here are the details of how the teams were sold.